Camp Nowhere (1994)

At the end of each school year young Morris "Mud" Himmel and his friends are unceremoniously packed off by their parents to summer camps that specialize in computer programming, military training, or calorie counting. However, this summer Morris and his clever cohorts have determined to create their own vacation haven. And with help from out-of-work high school drama teacher Dennis Van Welker (Christopher Lloyd) -- who passes himself off to each of the kids' parents as the owner of different phony theme camps -- the kids fabricate an elaborate scheme to take control of their summer. With no counselors, no rules or parental supervision, calamity prevails as the teens turn a rented group of dilapidated cabins near a leech-filled lake into the wildest, video game-filled, junk food eating and unencumbered summer camp a parent would never allow his kids to attend; in short -- the best camp in the world.

funny and fun!

A funny romp about childhood and growing up and being responsible for oneself. This was a really fun movie to watch. June 12, 2008

Loved this movie when I was a kid

This movie is for any kid who goes to summer camps. Taking over a camp is probably like the coolest thing to ever happen if you're a kid. I'm 21 now and still look back at this movie and a childhood favorite. Plus, Christopher Lloyd is such a funny character! March 22, 2008

Camp Nowhere

This is one of the cutest movies out there. All my children (ages 22,19,17,15) have loved this movie from the moment we first saw it (in the 90's). It's a movie for the entire family. Thank you Amazon for being the only place I could find it! January 12, 2008

Great movie, decent packaging

This movie was the reason I joined up with Amazon, thus, as everyone can guess, it can't be bad. Right? Right!

Let's start with the movie: it's very amusing. While there are only very few truly funny scenes (most notably the car wash scene with Cristopher Lloyd), the whole movie is lighhearted and easy going, with nice characters with whom you can identify. And altough there are a bunch of them the most important are 5: Mud, Gaby, Trish and Zach - the 4 main kids who originate the camp idea - and the adult they blackmail into helping them, Dennis. All have their quirks, all come to terms with them. And some come together in the process, which you, as the viewer, will if not love, then atleast like a lot. All in all I can say this is one decent family movie, which both the kids and the adults ought to like.
In other words - highly recommended!

Lets go to the next part - the packaging. While the extra features are few (Spanish audiotrack + chapter menu) the enhanced 16:9 transfer is excellent. You'll probably enjoy it even on a computer, as the final resolution is big enough for even 19" monitors. The sound... well, this is the only detail I can complain about - the package carries a "Dolby Digital Surround Sound" notice, which ain't true - both audiotracks, while in Dolby's format, are only stereo. But as this ain't really a movie where you can do much with surround sound then this shouldn't be a reason why to skip this release. Besides the number of channels audio is fine.

So, to take it all together: very nice movie with very good picture and more than decent audio. And while there are practically no extras it's no reason why your family shouldn't own a copy of this DVD.
January 20, 2007

Cute

It was a cute movie with not much point.. better for a day your bored. You should definatly rent this movie before you buy it. January 12, 2006

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